Help ID this Burgo German Revolver

[cm546]

Hello:

Can someone help ID this revolver. Thanks

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6irlnnayt...dy1WUL2ka?dl=0

[Kiwi_bloke]

Hi there cm546

I don't know too much about your revolver except to say, it looks like it is in very good condition - even the original box!

What I do know something about is the maker. A German friend of mine, who knows a lot about firearms, (he imports them), told me off one day for mispronouncing this maker's name. So I'll do my best to pass that advice on to you. If you are talking to a German, be sure to pronounce it Borgs-moo-ler, rather than Bergs-muller. The accent is on the first syllable and the "org" should sound like it does in "organ" or "organic". If I still haven't quite got that right, I'm sure other members will correct me, but that's my recollection.

If you look up the following, you should find out some information about Hugo Burgsmüller, a gun-maker based at a place called Kreiensen near the Harz Mountains in Germany. The markings on your revolver suggest that Karl "Senior" is the father of Hugo. "Senior" has much the same meaning in German as in English. Again, someone might know more about the family tree.

http://www.germanhuntingguns.com/Sec...SID=546&NRID=4

[Kiwi_bloke]

Hi there cm546

I don't know too much about your revolver except to say, it looks like it is in very good condition - even the original box!

What I do know something about is the maker. A German friend of mine, who knows a lot about firearms, (he imports them), told me off one day for mispronouncing this maker's name. So I'll do my best to pass that advice on to you. If you are talking to a German, be sure to pronounce it Borgs-moo-ler, rather than Bergs-muller. The accent is on the first syllable and the "org" should sound like it does in "organ" or "organic". If I still haven't quite got that right, I'm sure other members will correct me, but that's my recollection.

If you look up the following, you should find out some information about Hugo Burgsmüller, a gun-maker based at a place called Kreiensen near the Harz Mountains in Germany. The markings on your revolver suggest that Karl "Senior" is the father of Hugo. "Senior" has much the same meaning in German as in English. Again, someone might know more about the family tree.

http://www.germanhuntingguns.com/Sec...SID=546&NRID=4

[Steve Whitley]

Burgsmüller sold lots of pistols and other guns made for them by other manufacturers. The catalog listing below from the mid-1930s shows a training rifle made by J.G. Anschütz (who produced the same model as their #1407, and also for Otto Büscher, and others) during this time. Anschütz marked the receivers of guns with the retailer's name/logo for quantity orders of 50 or more, and such is likely the case with makers of other firearms sold through large dealers such as Burgsmüller.
Steve

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[Axel E]

This revolver is a typical 1950s – 60s product of Cuno Melcher, Solingen, ME –Sportwaffen, http://www.me-sportwaffen.de/index_en.php . Probably their model ME22. Since before WW1, Melcher specialized in making cheap pistols, using zinc die cast parts. Made for retail by Karl Burgsmueller Senior, Auf der Hoehe 15, Kreiensen , tm BURGO. The Burgsmuellers had a factory and mail order gunshop in Kreiensen, founded 1876. Before WW1 they wwere the largest European mail order gunshop. Besides making their own guns to their own patents, they had made guns to their designs by others and also offered all kinds of hunting and sport shooting equipment. After WW2 their gun business slowly decreased and ended about 1980.